Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I support the Minister on this amendment. Deputy Boyd Barrett has put on the record many of his objections to what is happening and has quoted the position in Scotland. I am keen to put on the record that there are many people in Sweden who maintain rent controls there have not worked. They say it stops the development of new apartments and houses for people. The controls there have restricted the market and caused more problems than they were worth.

Deputy Boyd Barrett promotes some alternatives. We can look around and find appropriate jurisdictions where such alternatives have not been the panacea to the crisis that Deputy Boyd Barrett suggests they are.

Only a short number of years ago we were not making our own decisions on our economy. Now things have recovered but, unfortunately, this is part of the legacy of the collapse in our economy. Deputy Boyd Barrett is acting as if money falls from the sky and everything can be sorted. I have not read Deputy Boyd Barrett's proposals, but a party similar to his, Sinn Féin, has recognised that-----

See this speech in context